If you set
System`Dump`$MessagesInHelpBrowserAreKnown=False
no message hyperlinks will be generated at all. This should make it
fairly easy for you to convert to InputForm and copy/paste.
On 9/27/06, AES <siegman at stanford.edu> wrote:
> In article <efarij$7ul$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
> "Ingolf Dahl" <ingolf.dahl at telia.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I have tried to reproduce your error message, but not succeded completely.
> > The closest I get I obtain by executing the following command:
> > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - snip - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> Thanks for detailed discussion, but my question still is: Among all the
> several Copy and Copy As buttons available in the Mathematica Front
> End's standard menu interface, is there really *no* way I can
>
> a) Select the displayed contents of a standard Input (or other) cell
> containing purely ASCII content (no Greek or special symbols) -- doing
> the selection either by dragging over the contents of the cell, or by
> clicking the cell bracket, whichever is needed, but with no other
> special preparation of the cell itself -- and then
>
> b) Use one of these menu Copy commands in order to copy these text
> contents and paste them in a word processor, text editor, or newsgroup
> window, and
>
> c) Have this text content show up in the text editor or newsgroup
> window the same as it looks in the Mathematica notebook display?
>
> Again, I just what to copy *what I originally typed into the cell*, and
> also *what is displayed in the cell*, and paste it into the window of an
> external app,
>
> -- without having to type it all over again
> -- without having to add arcane commands or make arcane
> transformations on the cell before copying it
> -- without having to do some arcane transformation of
> the material after copying it.
>
> [This is serious! If I can't do this, I may have to stop pestering this
> newsgroup with endless questions about all the weird or unexpected
> things I encounter in using Mathematica!]
>
>
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